The board of directors shall have power to make all necessary rules and regulations for the admission of children to said home, but no child shall be admitted thereto who has not been a bona fide resident of said city for a period of not less than three months next immediately preceding his admission to said home, and in the admission of children, preference shall be given to those whose parents are both dead or who have abandoned them; provided, that no religious or sectarian requirement shall ever be made for such admission.

(RSMo 1939 § 9663)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 14126; 1919 § 1130